Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism: Essays on Wilfrid Sellars

The ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars's Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars's accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology. The topics include the standing of empiricism, Sellars's complex treatment of perception, his dissatisfaction with both foundationalist and coherentist epistemologies, his commitment to realism, and the status of the normative (the logical space of reasons and the manifest image). The volume shows how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century.


Author: Willem A. DeVries
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/22/2010
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780199573301

About the Author

Willem deVries is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He was a student of Wilfrid Sellars' and has published extensively on his work.

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